COBBETT, WILLIAM 1762-1835
About 300 family letters, 1791-1833, including many to and from Cobbett (particularly with his daughter Anne). A few miscellaneous notes for lectures or articles, and some biographical notes on Cobbett himself.
Cobbett papers, Nuffield College, Oxford.
Some letters and memoranda, 1831-1838. Two manuscripts, 1830 and 1831. Correspondence concerning the Weekly Register, 1800-1810.
BL Add. MSS. 31125, 31857, 22906, 22907.
A small collection of papers, including accounts, lecture notes and letters to J. Y. Akerman and Joseph Bradley.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
A collection of Cobbett's letters to various correspondents, including Messrs Bagshaw, Dean, Gutsell, Oldfield, Wright and Dr French Laurence, 1797-1835.
Cobbett collection, University of Illinois Library, Urbana.
An account book relating to his bookselling activities in Philadelphia, 1796-1800.
American Antiquarian Society, Philadelphia.
Ten letters to various correspondents, 1800-1835. Rutgers UL, New Jersey.
Two manuscripts of editions of Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, 1822 and 1828, with letters to various correspondents, 1802 – 1834.
Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Various collections include letters of Cobbett to different correspondents, 1793-1832.
Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia.
Correspondents
JAMES PAUL COBBETT, copies of letters (with some to other correspondents), 1820-1827.
BL Add. MS. 31127.
JAMES MATHIEU, 23 letters, 1793.
Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia.
GEORGE O’BRIEN, 3rd Earl of Egremont, three letters, 1821. Petworth House Archives, NRA 15719.
WILLIAM WINDHAM, over 200 items, 1800-1806. BL Add. MS. 37853.
JOHN WRIGHT, many letters, 1807-1810. BL Add. MS. 31126.
Printed Material
LEWIS MELVILLE, Life and Letters of William Cobbett ( London, 1913).
GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE, The Life of William Cobbett ( London, 1924).
New Palgrave ; ODNB; ESS III 602.
Portrait: BLM (P); NPG
